Thanks to public money, councilor’s support, and partnership working (Pearl2, a partnership agency: Pendle B.C. and Barnfield Investment Properties
Ltd), Brierfield Mill - currently a silent space - is now in transition and to become Pendle's
flagship economic regeneration project. The Leader of Pendle Council, Councilor
Mike Blomeley, said:

The Homes and Communities Agency gave us 100% of
the money needed to buy it… We'll be preserving this fantastic Grade II listed
building and ultimately creating hundreds of jobs over the coming years!

As a Pendle company we're passionate about the
Brierfield Mill complex. It has fantastic potential. Not only does it mean we
have an opportunity to preserve it for generations to come but we'll be
creating jobs and hopefully a landmark for the region!

The Mill is already a landmark, and holds a
special place in many local people’s lives and hearts. Touching testimonies can
be read on the Brierfield Mill's Facebook page as well as in comments section under flickr
photos and YouTube films of Brierfield Mill. Brierfield Mill, as was, is the
reason why so many people moved to Brierfield, resulting in a culturally
diverse community; lives, then, linked and intertwined like the fabrics that
were spun on the factory floors. A common workplace and the social activities
arising from the Smith and Nephew camp – trips, football matches, walks up
Pendle hill, and the like – bonded the citizens that make up the community of
Brierfield and Reedley. Brierfield Mill is more than simply significant: it is
the cornerstone of a community. No wonder so many people feel so passionately
about it. And the Mill could indeed hold a key to the future prosperity of Brierfield.
Some members of the community may have their say on what the future could hold
for the Mill. Pendle M.P., Andrew Stephenson, is reported to have contacted 150 households to ask what they would like to see happen to Brierfield Mill, and there are lots of
possibilities…

Ultimately, this socially significant structure
has great potential. Brierfield Mill could, once again, be a reason to move to
Brierfield, and a reason to stay in Brierfield. However, a regeneration project
on this scale, and in these economically challenging times, will not happen
overnight. It is estimated that it will take ten years to complete the
regeneration of this landmark building. That ten-year time span has just
begun. Work has started with a major clear out operation: stripping the interiors
back to the bare fabric of the 1834 build; making the building ‘regeneration
ready’. This first step on the road to a new life for the Mill is estimated to
take nine months. And with these first steps the ten-year countdown has begun, the
metaphorical clock ticking…